83042 Easy Trivia Questions
83042 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What was the name of the first US manned space program?
Answer
Project Mercury
Who was the US president who announced the Truman Doctrine?
Answer
Harry S. Truman
Which country tested its first atomic bomb in 1949?
Answer
Soviet Union
In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?
Answer
1989
Who was the Soviet leader at the start of the Cold War?
Answer
Joseph Stalin
Which US president was in office during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer
John F. Kennedy
What was the name of the failed 1961 US-backed invasion of Cuba?
Answer
Bay of Pigs
In what year did the Vietnam War end?
Answer
1975
In what year did the Korean War begin?
Answer
1950
What was the name of the Soviet military alliance formed in 1955?
Answer
Warsaw Pact
What was the name of the first US satellite to reach orbit?
Answer
Explorer 1
Who was the Soviet leader who ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall?
Answer
Nikita Khrushchev
What was the name of the US program that rebuilt Western Europe?
Answer
Marshall Plan
Which US president gave the 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech?
Answer
John F. Kennedy
What was the name of the US policy to contain communism?
Answer
Containment
Who was the Soviet leader who introduced glasnost?
Answer
Mikhail Gorbachev
What was the name of the wall that divided Berlin?
Answer
Berlin Wall
What was the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth?
Answer
Sputnik 1
Which US president ordered the Berlin Airlift?
Answer
Harry S. Truman
What is the longest river in the United States?
Answer
Missouri
What is the longest river in North America?
Answer
Missouri River
What is the most populous city in South Korea?
Answer
Seoul
What is the most populous city in the United States?
Answer
New York City
Which archipelago in the Caribbean is a French overseas department?
Answer
Guadeloupe
Which archipelago nation is the most populous in the world?
Answer
Indonesia
Which archipelago in the Caribbean includes Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica?
Answer
Greater Antilles
Which Mediterranean archipelago includes the islands of Ibiza and Mallorca?
Answer
Balearic Islands
Which archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean is a Spanish territory off the coast of Africa?
Answer
Canary Islands
What is the largest island in the Japanese archipelago?
Answer
Honshu
Which archipelago is famous for its unique wildlife and inspired Darwin's theory of evolution?
Answer
Galapagos Islands
What is the name of the archipelago that includes the islands of Oahu, Maui, and Kauai?
Answer
Hawaiian Islands
Which gulf is the Pacific approach to the Panama Canal?
Answer
Gulf of Panama
Which large gulf in northern South America lies north of Lake Maracaibo?
Answer
Gulf of Venezuela
Which gulf separates Sweden and Finland and is the northernmost part of the Baltic Sea?
Answer
Gulf of Bothnia